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} Plato, it's all in Plato; what do they teach them in school these
} days? Clearly not Latin, of which Plato is the epitome.
}
} That reminds me, my primary school teacher told us it was all in
} Play-dough which, if you see Tony Hart's Morph as an everyman
} character, embedded in a confusing and surreal world where there is
} no comprehensible sound, but simply universal understanding (much
} like Mr Bean), does make sense.
}
} Anyway, back to Plato.
}
} Agnus Dei is actually a misspelling of "Angus Day", the well known
} surreal and metaphorical artist. It also refers to the Latin dance
} "Lamb-ada", combining surrealism with intimate dancing, which is fine
} unless your partner looks like Picasso's Weeping Woman, which might
} mean you need your cataracts seeing to.
}
} "Miserere Nobis" is a satirical comment from Jonathan Swift. The
} average man on the Clapham Omnibus (aka the Battersea replacement
} bus-service) would hear this as "The nobs [nobility] are misers" and
} accept it as a take down of the money-hoarding billionaires. However,
} the more classically educated nobility would translate it as "Have
} mercy on our 'members'" referring either to the members of Parliament
} (House of Lords, not the Johnny-come-lately Commons upstarts) who
} were overworked, or possibly as a plea to the syphilis doctors to
} apply only gentle treatments as far as possible.
}
} Thus, Swift satirised the different focuses of the lower and upper
} classes, either their downtrodden lot in life, or their undeserved
} sufferings for their overworked members (in either sense).
}
} So, there you have it, dear supplicant. There is no such thing as
} original sin (although I've just thought of something incredibly
} naughty involving three members of the aristocracy, a lawn-mower, two
} pints of custard, and a copy of George Orwell's A Short Walk Off
} Wigan Pier, which I'm fairly sure is original).
}
} You owe the Oracle a copy of Pliny's Naturist Hysterical.
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